Romans 9
9:1I speak truth in Christ, I do not lie, (bearing witness with me is my conscience in holy spirit,)
9:2that great distress is with me, and continual grief in my heart.
9:3For I would make a vow, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ for my brethren, of my relatives according to flesh;
9:4the ones who are Israelites, whom is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the legislation, and the service, and the promises,
9:5whom are the fathers, and of whom the Christ came according to flesh, the one being over all -- God blessed into the eons. Amen.
9:6But not such as that the word of God has fallen; for not all the ones of Israel are these Israel;
9:7and not that all children are seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac a seed shall be called to you.
9:8That is to say, not the children of the flesh are these children of God; but the children of the promise are imputed for seed.
9:9For of promise is this word, According to this time I will come, and a son will be to Sarah.
9:10And not only this, but also Rebecca from out of one marriage-bed had Isaac our father
9:11(for not yet being born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the intention of God according to choice should abide, not from works, but of the one calling),
9:12and it was said to her that, The greater shall serve the lesser.
9:13As it has been written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I detested.
9:14What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God? May it not be.
9:15For to Moses he says, I will show mercy on whom ever I should show mercy, and I shall pity whom ever I should pity.
9:16So then it is not of the one wanting, nor of the one running, but of the showing mercy of God.
9:17For the scripture says to Pharaoh that, For this same thing I awakened you, so that I should demonstrate in you my power, and so that I should declare my name in all the earth.
9:18So then whom he wants, he shows mercy; but whom he wants, he hardens.
9:19You will say then to me, Why yet does he complain? For who has opposed his will?
9:20Certainly, O man, who are you the one answering to God? Shall the thing shaped say to the one shaping, Why have you made me thus?
9:21Or has not the potter authority of the clay, from out of the same batch, to make the one indeed for a vessel of honor, and the other for dishonor?
9:22And if God wanting to demonstrate the wrath, and to make known his might, he bore with much leniency vessels of wrath being readied for destruction;
9:23and that he should make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
9:24whom also he called us not only from out of Jews, but also from out of the nations,
9:25(as also in Hosea he says, I will call the one not my people, My people; and the one not being loved, One being loved;
9:26and it will be in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called Sons of the living God;
9:27and Isaiah cries out over Israel, saying, Though the number of the sons of Israel should be as the sand of the sea, the vestige shall be preserved,)
9:28for completing a reckoning, and rendering it concise in righteousness; that the Lord will make a concise reckoning upon the earth.
9:29And as Isaiah described before, Unless the Lord of Hosts left behind for us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and as Gomorrah we would be like.
9:30What then shall we say? That nations, the ones not pursuing righteousness, overtook righteousness; but righteousness, the one of belief.
9:31But Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, attained not unto the law of righteousness.
9:32Why? Because it was not of belief, but as of works of law. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;
9:33as it has been written, Behold, I put in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; and every one trusting upon him shall not be disgraced.